Car Insurance Quotes Without Personal Information

Safety of one’s personal info has become one of the responsibilities of all insurers and their brokers/agents and therefore offering car insurance quotes without asking for any items that some may consider private has been made common practice. This is due to the fact that potential buyers may not seek rates from an insurer/agent who asks for a buyer’s driver’s license or social security numbers.

There have been incidences when consumers’/clients’ info has been obtained through unethical methods and have been misused/ used for illegal activities such as withdrawing money from one’s account, misusing credit card information, etc. After such illegal use, the victim may find themselves in a financial hardship and having to deal with canceling accounts and other related measures.

Considering the above facts, now insurers or their brokers will provide an auto insurance quote without personal information e.g. when a potential buyers visits website for seeking quotations, one needs to enter their zip code which takes one to another page containing a short application form. This form requires one to enter one’s basic information only. Basic information means only that which is required by insurers to calculate a premium. Remember, nothing private is required to provide at this point of time. After completing the form and submitting the page, within seconds one can receive rates from multiple insurers. Also, now these websites have two layers of security to protect the identity of their clients. First, the zip code entered by the visitor on the website ensures that whatever information is provided by the visitor goes only to those who work in the given zip code area. Second, only basic info is required.

Therefore, one only needs to answer basic questions when obtaining quotations. If any website, however, asks for any items like account numbers, credit card number or anything that one may feel uncomfortable provide, one must be very careful and ask for the purpose or maybe even avoid these websites entirely.